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Old 10-19-2010, 03:03 PM   #274 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by tjts1 View Post
You would think ecomodders would try to take advantage of the benefits of ethanol.
I think we can reasonably assume this bloke knows what he's talking about :
30% FE detriment in flexfuel engines because of the ethanol.

And that is in engines built or specially adapted to run on ethanol / E85.
The hit when running E10 will of course be lower as there is less ethanol and more regular fuel.
But on an old engine that was never intended to run on ethanol-mixtures, built without the modern electronic wizardry that controls combustion, the hit could well be larger than the expected 30% x 10 / 85 .
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